Liz Truss
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Liz Truss’s cabinet will be a democratic disaster
Truss is preparing to form a cabinet filled with failures, opportunists and third-raters while we watch on helplessly
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Will Truss act to help the Leeds student jailed for 34 years for tweeting in repressive Saudi Arabia?
Salma al-Shehab signalled her support for women’s rights activists. Her sentence offers a glimpse into the reality of life under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Can the new prime minister keep the lights on?
Britain’s energy crisis is even harder to fix than you thought – and Truss and Sunak don’t even seem to be trying
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Britain’s phoney war on red tape
Liz Truss is promising a bonfire of rules and regulations. But every other prime minister has tried that and failed – for good reason
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Sometimes, the BBC make it hard to support them
The BBC is an important part of our national and cultural identity and I remain a defender of them. But, on occasion, they make doing so quite difficult
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Are Truss and Sunak on the wrong side of the law over Rwanda?
The Tory leadership candidates’ support for the Rwanda refugee policy is not only morally abhorrent, but also may violate international law
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak: Two irrational irritants debating the irrelevant
It's highly illogical, but Truss and Sunak appear to actually agree on something: Star Trek over Star Wars
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Just how bad will PM Truss be? Let us count the ways…
Truss has been described as “a woman so dense that light bends around her”, shares one reader
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Liz Truss’s tragic money tree
When it comes to the economy, the Tory frontrunner is taking the worst possible advice from the worst possible advisers
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Liz and Rishi: Two jokes that aren’t funny anymore
The pair just make it up as they go along. So, come and join Liz and Rishi at their one-stop improv shop
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Liz Truss has some bizarre priorities for Downing Street
Strangely, Truss's beloved idol, Margaret Thatcher, didn't put office layout in any leadership and election manifestos
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My 6-point plan to avert catastrophe
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will heed it
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There’s no refuge from our shocking lack of humanity
The British response to the invasion of Ukraine illustrates why the sickness in the Conservative party goes beyond Boris Johnson, writes one reader
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The unacknowledged courage of Melinda Simmons
While Liz Truss posed for photo ops, the UK's ambassador to Ukraine made the decision to stay at her post in Kyiv
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Mitch Benn: Five inanimate objects that would make a better foreign secretary than Liz Truss
After her disastrous diplomatic trip to Russia, the comedian casts his eye over potential replacements for the foreign secretary
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British diplomacy: All style and no substance, but ineptitude may not be the real problem
Britain has seemed like a court jester on the world stage during the Ukraine crisis: prancing around and making a lot of noise to little effect. But Boris Johnson’s government has also been undermined abroad by its failure to crack down on the dirty Russian money already sloshing around in its system
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The New European’s Person of The Year: Richard Ratcliffe
For those human qualities - bravery, loyalty, integrity, intelligence, sacrifice - he demonstrated in defiance of a political system in which those same qualities are so conspicuously absent.